Multithreading possible if drives connected to PCI controller?

Hello there,
I have an older (still very funcitonal) G4 (sawtooth) with 2 drives. The system and apps drive is connected to the on-board ATA66 controller. The documents drive is connected to a Sonnet Tempo ATA100 PCI controller. I have the drives in independent channels to allow OS X to multithread between the two.
Both drives are ATA100 and the Sonnet card has 2 independent (I believe) connectors. To get a little better drive throughput I would like to connect both to the Sonnet PCI card. Can I attach my drives to each connector and achieve multithreading? I'm inclined to believe no as the ATA connectors of the PCI card eventually merge in a single connection between the PCI card and the motherboard. I'm not sure if this card is bootable (Sonnet no longer info on it).
Any thoughts? Thanks very much for any feedback you may provide,
Jacobo

Hi
In practice I expect the single connection between the PCI card and logic board probably has little or no impact.
A typical ATA hard drive may have a sustained transfer rate of 60 MBytes/sec.
Each ATA/100 channel has a theoretical transfer rate of 100 MBytes/sec.
A 32-bit PCI card (in a Sawtooth with a 33MHz PCI bus) will have a theoretical transfer rate of ~133 MBytes/sec.
Consequently the PCI card isn't normally a bottleneck, as it has enough bandwidth for a pair of ATA drives.
Also the bandwidth of the entire PCI bus is shared between all the PCI cards installed and all the devices connected to the South Bridge, including the optical drive, zip drive (if present), on-board ATA drives and AirPort card etc.
Consequently no matter where you connect the drives, ultimately the bandwidth is still being shared.
Multithreading usually refers to processors. Even then, although a number of different threads may have been started, only one thread is being executed at any one instance in time (unless you have dual processors).

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